Es­sen­tial ser­vices ground to a halt yes­ter­day as over 300 dai­ly-paid work­ers from the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) protest­ed un­paid al­lowances, leav­ing garbage un­col­lect­ed and roads in dis­re­pair.

Hun­dreds of peo­ple gath­ered at Rosan­na Street, Palmiste, to wit­ness the il­lu­mi­na­tion of an 80-foot Christ­mas tree at the home of busi­ness­man Dave Singh and his fam­i­ly.

Busi­ness­man and so­cial ac­tivist In­shan Ish­mael has failed in his bid to stop four-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch We­st­on Rawl­ins, known as Cro Cro, from ap­peal­ing his (Ish­mael) land­mark defama­tion case. 

Sev­er­al hours of rain caused flash flood­ing in Bar­rack­pore, dis­rupt­ing a pipelay­ing project in Gol­con­da.

For­mer act­ing pris­ons com­mis­sion­er De­op­er­sad Ra­moutar has been strong­ly crit­i­cised by a High Court Judge for ini­ti­at­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a fe­male prison of­fi­cer won an al­most two-decade-long le­gal bat­tle over be­ing de­clared to have aban­doned her job af­ter miss­ing work for sev­er­al months due to in­jury and preg­nan­cy.

The per­son who killed moth­er of two Sher­ryann Roet at­tempt­ed to stage her death as a sui­cide, hop­ing to avoid sus­pi­cion. How­ev­er, an au­top­sy done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day re­vealed the truth—Roet had been beat­en to death be­fore be­ing hung from a tree.

Head of the TTPS Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment, Su­per­in­ten­dent Michelle Row­ley-Pow­der, says she is con­cerned about a de­crease in do­mes­tic vi­o­lence re­ports, em­pha­sis­ing that this de­cline is not nec­es­sar­i­ly good news.

De­spite be­ing dressed as San­ta Claus with a hat and fake beard, a rob­ber and his ac­com­plices elud­ed cap­ture af­ter they tied up four work­ers at a store in San Fer­nan­do and es­caped with cash, phones and au­to­mo­tive sup­plies.

Sun­dar Jookoo, the lo­cal gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Fe­lic­i­ty on the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, vis­it­ed Shan­ti Karpat at her home and place of busi­ness yes­ter­day.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Mi­gra­tion (IOM) Tues­day re­port­ed that over the past 48 hours, more than 4,500 peo­ple have be­come new­ly dis­placed due to on­go­ing in­se­cu­ri­ty in Haiti where crim­i­nal gangs have been seek­ing to over­throw the gov­ern­ment and in­crease the lev­el of in­se­cu­ri­ty in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

A Bar­rack­pore busi­ness­man ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Kim­i­tria Gray at the San Fer­nan­do High Court on Mon­day af­ter be­ing charged with fraud­u­lent con­ver­sion in the sum of $61,000 in re­la­tion to a down pay­ment for an im­port­ed Nis­san pan­el van that was nev­er de­liv­ered.

The per­son who killed moth­er of two Sher­ryann Roet at­tempt­ed to stage her death as a sui­cide, hop­ing to avoid sus­pi­cion. How­ev­er, an au­top­sy at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre re­vealed the grim truth—Roet had been beat­en to death be­fore be­ing hung from a tree.